Rustam Temirgaliev

Rustam Ilmirovich Temirgaliev (15 August 1976-) was Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea from 18 September 2013 to 26 February 2014, succeeding Valeriy Palchuk.

Biography
Rustam Ilmirovich Temirgaliev was born on 15 August 1976 in Ulan-Ude, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, and his family moved to Crimea in 1983. Temirgaliev graduated from the Kyiv National Economic University in 1998 and worked as a teacher of economic policy before entering politics, and on 18 September 2013 he became Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. During the 2014 Crimean Crisis, he sided with Sergey Aksyonov and the Crimean separatists, assisting in the Republic of Crimea becoming independent.